Computer Navigation Knee Replacements

Accurate alignment of the knee components is critical to the overall function of your new joint, and it also plays a role in helping you’re joint feel healthy again and helping the joint replacement to potentially last longer. Computer-assisted technology has made it possible to navigate joint replacement procedures with a level of accuracy so precise it may improve the results of your surgery

Benefits :
Potential advantages of Computer Navigation:

• Provides comprehensive data about anatomy, alignment, and component position, resulting in the more exact placement of your joint replacement.
• Allows the surgeon to more accurately plan for your surgery with the use of digital images of your hip, knee, and ankle.
• It provides the surgeon with more control, feedback, and the ability to correct potential errors during the surgery.
• Allows for better visualization of anatomy with less need for exposure, which is particularly important when minimally-invasive techniques are used.

There are several potential benefits for those who have computer-assisted surgery with their total joint replacement, including:

• May increase the life of your replacement.
• Reduces the risk of dislocation and revision surgery
• Results in more excellent stability and range of motion.
• Helps improve the overall function of your joint replacement

Computer-assisted surgery may allow for less-invasive surgical techniques, which have several other potential advantages, including:

• Reduced blood loss during surgery, which lessens the need for a blood transfusion.
• Faster recovery.
• Reduced length of your hospital stay
• Shorter post-operative physical rehabilitation.
• Less scarring